KATATONIA

Release Year: 2021
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: emotional progressive melancholic atmospheric metal

marking three decades of the spellbinding sound, more than impressive two-disc collection of twenty seven rare tracks from single B-sides, EPs and special album editions that were far from accessible to everyone, often pressed only in small quantities before, are now brought together in one compilation with full spectrum of emotion-rich sound for all devoted fans of Swedish melancholy, serving also as a retrospective illustration of Katatonia’s sensitive sound evolution; though the very first blackened doom recordings are not included here, so the journey begins with 1996's Scarlet Heavens track from vinyl split with Primordial, moving in a reverse order from later album recordings through The Longest Year EP [2010], July EP [2007], My Twin EP [2006], Deliberation EP [2006], Teargas EP [2001], down to Saw You Drown EP [1998], including Judas Priest and Palace Music covers as well as a handful of eyebrow-raising remixes; British twenty four page hardcover digibook edition is filled with chronological insights, photographs and liner notes by Eleanor Goodman